A long time ago most Black people were Conservative Republicans. Hard working folks who were just trying to get ahead like the rest of us. Then they were bought off by the progressives who hated them. The same progressives, who for my entire life have been saying that Black people just weren't good enough. That they needed to be managed by the ruling class with their absolutely disastrous policies. I've cringed as the poverty pimps kept black folks from realizing just what was happening to them. But that has changed lately. I've been hearing a lot of Blacks like this woman lately:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX864fXR1A0
All I can say is welcome home, sister.
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A couple of decades back I was a delegate to a state Republican convention here. One of the speakers was a black gentleman named Maurice Dawkins.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m ... _79341016/
What a crowd-mover! The man was totally inspirational. He had the whole convention of stodgy Republicans standing up, holding each other's hands above their heads singing "God Bless America" like it was some 60's peace rally. I believe he could have gotten them to sing "We Shall Overcome", if they had known the words. The man could have talked Martin Luther King into a knot. I was amazed.
Basically, his moral stance as a preacher was incompatible with the Democrats. He was pro civil rights, but otherwise philosophically aligned with conservatives. And, frankly, the Republicans were the ones who actually did the most for civil rights by running Lincoln.
A few years later he was run for Senate in a race that was considered a throwaway. He got almost no backing from the GOP. I thought it was shameful. I would have liked to have seen him with enough budget that the state could have heard what I heard.
I miss him.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m ... _79341016/
What a crowd-mover! The man was totally inspirational. He had the whole convention of stodgy Republicans standing up, holding each other's hands above their heads singing "God Bless America" like it was some 60's peace rally. I believe he could have gotten them to sing "We Shall Overcome", if they had known the words. The man could have talked Martin Luther King into a knot. I was amazed.
Basically, his moral stance as a preacher was incompatible with the Democrats. He was pro civil rights, but otherwise philosophically aligned with conservatives. And, frankly, the Republicans were the ones who actually did the most for civil rights by running Lincoln.
A few years later he was run for Senate in a race that was considered a throwaway. He got almost no backing from the GOP. I thought it was shameful. I would have liked to have seen him with enough budget that the state could have heard what I heard.
I miss him.
Tom Ligon wrote:A couple of decades back I was a delegate to a state Republican convention here. One of the speakers was a black gentleman named Maurice Dawkins.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m ... _79341016/
What a crowd-mover! The man was totally inspirational. He had the whole convention of stodgy Republicans standing up, holding each other's hands above their heads singing "God Bless America" like it was some 60's peace rally. I believe he could have gotten them to sing "We Shall Overcome", if they had known the words. The man could have talked Martin Luther King into a knot. I was amazed.
Basically, his moral stance as a preacher was incompatible with the Democrats. He was pro civil rights, but otherwise philosophically aligned with conservatives. And, frankly, the Republicans were the ones who actually did the most for civil rights by running Lincoln.
A few years later he was run for Senate in a race that was considered a throwaway. He got almost no backing from the GOP. I thought it was shameful. I would have liked to have seen him with enough budget that the state could have heard what I heard.
I miss him.
The National party really doesn't like social conservatives. In any case, I saw Alan Keyes give a speech at the 1993 Oklahoma GOP convention. He marched up the aisles with rock star music playing over the loud speakers and he roused that crowd in exactly the manner you describe. Very impressive at the time, but he has since apparently gone to the fringe. D*mn fine speaker though.
It really doesn't like libertarians either.Diogenes wrote:The National party really doesn't like social conservatives. In any case, I saw Alan Keyes give a speech at the 1993 Oklahoma GOP convention. He marched up the aisles with rock star music playing over the loud speakers and he roused that crowd in exactly the manner you describe. Very impressive at the time, but he has since apparently gone to the fringe. D*mn fine speaker though.
BTW when Keyes ran in Illinois I voted for Obama. As did about 10% to 20% of the Republicans in Illinois. Bush out polled Keyes in Illinois. There were a LOT of undervotes in the Keyes race and a LOT did as I did and voted for Obama in protest. My reasoning? Better the Communist than the Theocon.
But you can thank my State Senator, Dave Syverson, for pushing Keyes. When they could have gotten the runner up in the primary to run instead of carpetbagger Keyes.
And the Oh So Moral Keyes disowned his daughter because she was a lesbian. Compare and contrast with Cheney. Keyes is a disgrace.
Fortunately he has taken his rightful place on the political stage these days. He is off it.
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